Jennifer Mcallister
Attorney at Law
California
CA, CA
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Work History
Law Office of Jennifer A. McAllister
Attorney at Law
Aug 2012 - Present
Business law practice serving new and existing small businesses, particularly food producers and cottage food enterprises, in Silicon Valley. Litigation and transactional work. Client service area includes Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma counties. I have also represented plaintiffs in employment, breach-of-contract, and civil rights cases, and am available on a contract basis for legal research, motion drafting, and document review.
Law Office of Shawn T. Leuthold
Freelance legal researcher/clerk
Aug 2011 - Jul 2012
Legal research, drafting (complaints, demurrers, motions, memoranda of points and authorities for motions) and discovery for solo business/family law practitioner in San Jose.
Santa Clara University School of Law
Law Graduate Fellow
Oct 2011 - Jun 2012
Graduate Fellow assisting Professor Bradley Joondeph with research and editing for journal articles, ACA Litigation blog, and teaching materials.
Transgender Law Center
Law clerk/Legal intern
Jan 2011 - Apr 2011
Assisted clients with preparing paperwork for court-ordered changes of name and gender; answered client questions under supervision of staff attorney; performed prelitigation/premediation legal research at staff attorney's direction; drafted letter templates for legal team's use for responding to client inquiries.
Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project
Summer law clerk/Volunteer legal assistant
Jun 2010 - Sep 2010
Co-founded and coordinated TGIJP volunteer legal mail project at Santa Clara Law; assisted legal director with research for prospective impact litigation on behalf of transgender/transsexual prisoners in California prisons; provided indirect legal referrals for out-of-state prisoners; counseled drop-in clients on non-legal matters.
Santa Clara University School of Law
Faculty research assistant
Jun 2009 - Sep 2010
Read and analyzed Federal Circuit Court of Appeals preemption decisions for law journal articles by Professor Bradley Joondeph. Collaborated with research team on compiling four-year dataset of rulings and party affiliations of judges within each circuit.
Office of Shawn T. Leuthold
Freelance Legal Researcher/Clerk
Nov 2008 - Sep 2009
Researched California tort, contract and secured transaction law. Drafted demurrers, memoranda of points and authorities supporting demurrers, and office memoranda.